Famous Real Estate Quotes

“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.” ~Anthony Trollope

“I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.” ~Jesse H. Jones

“Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!”~John Jacob Astor

“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.” ~John D. Rockefeller

“I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They’re consuming real estate, not investing in it.” ~Chris Cooper

“The best investment on earth is earth.” ~Louis Glickman

“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt“

“Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.” ~Winston Churchill

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.” ~Warren Buffett

“Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.” Warren Buffett“

“What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.”~Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.” ~Hebrew Proverb

“Buy real estate in areas where the path exists and buy more real estate where there is no path, but you can create your own.” ~David Waronker American real estate investor

“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.” -John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist

“A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor’s. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”~Shakespeare

“My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.” ~Gladys Taber

“In real estate, many investors love triple net leases (NNN). With NNN’s investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs.” Robert Kiyosaki

“As long as you have more cash flowing in than flowing out, your investment is a good investment.” Robert Kiyosaki

“Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.” IvankaTrump

“Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.” ~Donal Henahan

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” ~Mark Twain – Author and Humorist

“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.” ~Thomas Jefferson – American President

“Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.” ~William Penn Adair

“Don’t wait to buy land, buy land and wait.” ~Will Rogers

“And I sincerely believe…that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurist on a large scale.”~Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce” –James Garfield, 20th President of the United States.

“He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.” –The Book Proverbs 12 vs. 11